The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02
Lemon Street,
PaLatkS, Florida.

train waited a few minutes at Florence
1t was "A frosty night, but there was 4
softness In the atmosphere which gave
promise for the morrow. The stars
were very brilliant. The wind Was from
the southwest. The memory of the bit
ter MONDAY air | had left at Washing
ton was like a bau dream. Four hours
later | woke and locked out of my win
dow u the eastward, recognizing the
lard -cape IA Very familiar "A little below
Char eStOH Junction. The eastern sky
Was of that wOrdeI full color which We
so much admire IN ancient Persian tur-
uupi@e-S, Il color Nou cannot define, fer
at one instant you say IL Ii a faded olive
green, anal the next III, tant you say there
Il not a bIt at green III II, but II IL olive
blue. You wholly uncertain
whether there Is any green or any blue
IN II, but you are sure of the olive. and
then you remember that you don't know
what olive is, by Itself. and you begin
To think of shades of yellow, and so you
puzzle your brain 20 dt fine il; until YOU
come to that wise conclusion, not often
reached, 10 give up bothering bout
definitions, and just luXuriate IN en- Joy
ing color exquisite enough 10 be the
floor of paradise. SO, packing my pill
lows to support my head close To the
window. | lay and looked as We went
down through South Carolina. And
suddenly there began to come into that
wonderful color, fiushes, Just momen-
tary flushes, Of crimson, sudden and
evanescent as you have seen in the Au-
rora Borealis lights in the north country.
And then with a swift change the east
was for moment gold, all over the sky
and the sun literally rushed up from
behind the low horizon.
At . We had breakfasted "a poor br6 ak
| fast by the way at Savannah, and We're
| fly ing at forty odd miles an hour toward
| Way cross. We We're riding with the car
| doors and windows open. 1t was a warm
summer day. All signs of ice by the
/ roadside vanished before we reached Sa
vannah. There we're no flowers visible ,
| but the young green shoots on the plants,
and here and there emerald spots among
tie grasses, made the landscapes CHEEKY.
| At stations / kept a sharp lookout for the
| white blossoms of the bartonia, always
| our first spring flower on the southwark
| trip, tut saw none. III have found plenty
of it to-day at jacksonville. We were
| two hC urs behind time, hut content and
comfortable, save for the heat and dust
of the last forty miles, when We came
| INTO Jacksonville at > -, lock ON Thurs
| day afternoon. We had purposed going
on to TAMPA on Friday, Tut as often as
| have purpOsed il have never succeed
| eel in getting through Jacksonville 18th
| ont a few days rest. The North and the
| winter are left far behind. The South
| and the spring time are here. Let liz
| en- Joy the fact. Tie Winds, is in every
way an ENJOYABLE resting place. Tween
| ty-four hours after arrived came q lettf !
| which told me that the snow was fifteen
| feet deep over Lonesome Lake cabin. and
| the Thermometer at FraDconia was forty
! one degrees below zero on that Wclnes-
day morning when | left Washington.
Is not that enough To make one content
| to rest here, where as last night, | sat ON
| the hotel piazza ard smoked my cigar
| and looked at the stars, and talked with
| friends till nearly midnight: